L’ Shana Tovah: Apples and Honey – What is the Origin?
One of the most well-known customs of Rosh Hashanah is the dipping of apple pieces in honey but what is its origin?
In the time...
“The U.S. and the Holocaust” screening at VHM featured German Embassy...
The Virginia Holocaust Museum, VPM and the JCFR recently partnered to bring a screening and panel discussion for “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” a...
The Book of Two Ways
Hadassah’s annual Health Program in March 21 featured a speaker who was an end-of-life Doula.
As part of the program, a brief discussion was featured...
A Jewish Camp at the Beach
Co-Directors Danny Mishkin and Lynn Lancaster of Sababa Beachaway in Virginia Beach are excited to welcome campers back beginning with their first two-week session...
Did You Know
Tel Aviv ranked as world's happiest city
By Jerusalem Post Staff, June 15
Tel Aviv's "rich cultural heritage, kind people, and abundance of food, shopping, and...
Visit the museum
Come join more than 10,000 visitors who have come to the Virginia Holocaust Museum since we re-opened with Commonwealth of Virginia COVID-19 guidelines on...
In Memoriam: Gilbert Rosenthal, 1925-2021
In Memoriam: Gilbert Rosenthal, 1925-2021
Longtime community leader Gilbert Rosenthal died peacefully at Westminster Canterbury Richmond on February 13.
Longtime leader and great friend of the community Gilbert “Gil”...
Mir Zaynen Do! We Are Here!
Zog nit keyn mol az du geyst dem letstn veg,
Khotsh himlen blayene farshteln bloye teg.
Kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho -
S'vet a poyk ton...
Critical mistake to make Israel and Hamas Moral Equals
Editor's Note: The following Op Ed commentary by Daniel Staffenberg appeared in the Nov. 2nd issue of the Richmond Times Dispatch
The single deadliest...
Richmond Jewish Learning Experience launches
There are many different links joining all of us in the Jewish nation: a Passover Seder, a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, giving tzedakah (charity),...
